Roman Catholics: Rebellion in the Backyard

Florence, the city where Girolamo Savonarola preached in defiance
of a Renaissance Pope, Alexander VI, has
another rebel priest on its hands. In fact, the name of Don Enzo
Mazzi, 41, has already become known all over Italy as a symbol of the
clerical protest that has broken out even in Roman Catholicism's own
backyard.

Father Mazzi was for 14 years pastor of the church of Santa Maria Delle
Grazie in the drab, working-class Florentine suburb of Isolotto. On the
theory that conventional methods would have no impact on his
parishioners, most...